Canadian post-secondary players in India

This paper seeks to identify those common problems, discuss remedies, and suggest the best ideas for moving forward with a view to improving the situation for Canadian institutions that wish to work in and with India. [...] This paper is organized in three sections: (1) an examination of the problems faced by post-secondary institutions conducting academic business with and in India, from the point of view of the practitioners; (2) an update and assessment of recent federal programs and initiatives related to improving this situation; (3) a summary of the group’s best ideas for moving forward in the work of facilitat [...] These challenges are such that Mukherjee argues that while Canada trails competitors in terms of student recruitment, ‘stand-alone’ presence is enough of a new frontier that Canada here can “leapfrog the competition with the right mix of vision and strategy.” Of particular import to foreign institutions is the contended. [...] Crago (U Montreal) argued that opportunities opened by studying in French need due emphasis: “We need to explain to people why it would be as interesting to study in French as it is to study in English and that at the graduate level students can write theses and interact with their professors and peers in English at the francophone universities.” Yet according to Martin, “The brand that was being [...] It is, in fact, an essential part of the Canadian image and hence should be part of the ‘brand,’ of being Canada.” The brand itself is a logo comprising a red, very stylized maple leaf, with the word “imagine” in uppercase, underneath and to the right of the leaf.